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25 Céntimos Galera
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Galera (Granada) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Orange note with a dotted rectangular border in brown. The text is printed in brown letterpress across the centre, with the issuing authority 'El Consejo Municipal de GALERA (Granada)' above the promise-to-pay clause 'Pagará al portador'. The denomination '25' is printed in large red numerals, with 'CENTIMOS' below in brown. A circular municipal seal is faintly visible as an underprint to the left, and a handwritten serial number appears in the upper right corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | El Consejo Municipal de GALERA (Granada) Pagará al portador 25 CENTIMOS (Translation: The Municipal Council of Galera (Granada) Will pay the bearer 25 Centimos) |
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Galera is a small municipality in the comarca of Huéscar, Granada province, and like dozens of rural Andalusian and Levantine councils during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional paper when Republican-zone coinage evaporated from circulation after 1936. The Consejo Municipal — the elected council operating under Republican authority — authorized these céntimos to keep local commerce moving. Printing was handled by Imprenta Belmonte in nearby Huéscar, a provincial press not equipped for security printing.
The absence of a Gari Monetary catalog number suggests this specific emission remains incompletely documented — not unusual for single-municipality wartime issues from small Granadan towns, many of which survive in only a handful of examples.